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Ronald Wilson Reagan's conservatism reflects his Main Street origins. Son of a shoe salesman, he was reared in a succession of small Illinois towns: Tampico, where he was born on Feb. 6,1911, Galesburg, Monmouth and Dixon. As a freshman at 250-student Eureka College, a Disciples of Christ school, he was one of the leaders of a week-long student strike that forced college officials to rescind cuts in the educational program and loosen puritanical rules that forbade smoking, drinking and dancing. An indifferent student, he concentrated on debating, dramatics and football...
...Memphis car salesman, a Ghanaian supreme court justice, a Japanese cartoonist-all are Kenya-bound for next week's opening of a potentially explosive international religious meeting. At Nairobi's* capacious Kenyatta Conference Centre, a band beating gazelle-hide drums and blowing on cow horns will greet 747 voting delegates and 1,600 observers and staff. And then the fifth septennial Assembly of the World Council of Churches will settle down to the issues that trouble the non-Catholic wing of the ecumenical movement...
...salesman in an "adult" book store on Washington St. tells me that the police converge on the area in cycles. Large patrols cropped up a while before the last elections. Most of the hookers have been flushed out of Beach St. since then, and if Timilty had won, the cashier guesses he would probably be stranded without this...
...example, is not merely the richest tale in Passions, but one of the most provocative short fictions of the last decade. In his customary role, Sam Palka, self-made entrepreneur, swaggers through a career of indulgence. In off-hours he assumes the role of Vishkover, a modest sewing machine salesman who courts the unprepossessing Channah Basha. As the miserably married Palka, Sam owns the very building in which Channah lives; as the bachelor Vishkover, he is incapable of force or originality. But it is here that his best self survives, a peasant from the other side, unsophisticated and uncorrupted...
...revue format is noble, but the material for the Wild Stunt Show is simply atrocious. The jokes are so trite, so moldy and artless that we wonder whether they are purposely so in order to heighten the nostalgic values. They either fall into the category of the travelling salesman and farmer's daughter, or into the category of stupid. All are repetitious. There are some notable gimmicks, but to reveal them here would be to deprive them of any possible humor they might have had, because they are just that, substanceless gimmicks...